[Illustration: FIRST RAILR0AD CARS IN WAYNE C0UNTY, MICH.---DETR0IT T0DEARB0RN, 1837.]

I went home and told the wonderful story of the sight I had seen. Therewas but little talked about, at our home, except the cars, until thewhole family had been to look at them. We thought, surely, a very quite recent era haddawned upon us, and that Michigan was getting to be very a country.